No Applications

Its difficult to monitor over 1k players on average and see which one is most qualified for mod.

 

one thing i find sad... is that some people who have been online for a long time on both forums/servers and are very liked get denied just because of their ts3 activity, IMO ts3 is not really THAT important, and many of the staff have skype. and if that does not work... EVERY STAFF MEMBER HAS A FORUM ACCOUNT, here is what i think a mod application needs to have.

overall activity=most important
amount of hours on the server=important
amount of hours/posts/positives on forums=important.
then reporting= important but not as much as the others.
ts3= is not important if you have a skype account.

do know that this is MY opinion and i can agree with so much of this :V

 

Teamspeak is an important aspect of becoming a moderator, Pikmin already has a 900/100 chance of becoming moderator again at wish. To be completely honest with people, I have no clue why specknav was ever accepted, the only reason I could note was that he was in Teamspeak a lot. For example Tuggers, he was a very liked member compared to specknav. I don't have anything against specknav but his past still impacted many members till today.
300 posts+ < Teamspeak

 

The admins wouldn't know if the player was interested in a staff position or not. I think the staff application system is fine as is.

 

This is an idea I have also had myself over the past few weeks. I am not sure if I plan on fully introducing it yet.
However, we are going to start selecting members of the community (who we feel are ready for moderator) to take part in a Staff Interview if they agree to it without actually applying for moderator.

Feel free to comment / PM me with any ideas / suggestions you have regarding this.

 

Good Idea, can't see much wrong here.

 

That sounds like a good idea to me. I would recommend taking into consideration the amount of posts they report. However, I wouldn't like it if staff applications were removed completely.

Edit : I have something else to add to this. Would moderators be able to nominate players for an interview?

 

An idea I think would be nice is to make a staff application ticket, with only 2 or 3 questions from the mod app. That way based on how well someone answers that question, they can just move on to the selection process. Many people are unsure on applying, a small reminder such as a ticket would maybe attract the staff's attention.

 

Another note on Staff - We are going to start tracking the exact amount of time our Staff are spending on the server they are moderator on, and the other McBrawl servers. This will help us get an accurate measurment of how active our staff are in-game.

 

You should have done this at the beginning. :L

 

Here is a small example of my rough idea. Perhaps the staff can implement it with those "more important questions".

Spoiler: Moderator Ticket

McBrawl Moderator Ticket:

How old are you? -

How active do you consider yourself in-game? (Please explain in moderate detail) -

How active do you consider yourself on TS3? (Please explain in moderate detail) -

How active do you consider yourself on the forums? (Please explain in moderate detail) -

The only reason I suggest this is because there are plenty of people who were and are more than qualified for moderator, but didn't want it, and there are even people who the staff may favor that the community hates (LuckyPop). That is why the Poll would be a small hint to the staff of what the community thinks of that member.

 

That is absolutely amazing.

 

The only flaw I see with this idea is that if a player is nice to admins on Ts3 and normal on the forums they will probably get mod without any input from the community. They might just be one of those players who only have respect for people with more power then them.

 

I think this is a great idea for a couple of reasons:
1. Not everyone can have ts3 (I cant)
2. Even though having a few more active mods is good too many isnt
3. If everyone can apply for mod too many people are gonna try to steal other people's credit for good builds by posting them instead of their own

 

We still require applicants to do a Teamspeak interview with the admins.

 

Actually, I really like the idea of staff picking candidates to be moderators. The only thing I see with that is that this is a pretty big community, and there might be some people who want the chance to be staff but never get a chance to apply.

Overall, I still like it better than people applying.